{"product_id":"9781854595270-kindertransport","title":"Kindertransport","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eA modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past - brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of 9 and brought to England with the promise of a new life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of nine, Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1939 until the outbreak of World War II, nearly 10,000 Jewish children were taken from their families in Nazi-occupied Germany and sent to live with foster families in Britain. Diane Samuels’ seminal play, \u003cem\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/em\u003e, imagines the fate of one such child. Now widely considered a modern classic, \u003cem\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/em\u003e has been read and studied the world over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/em\u003e won the 1992 Verity Bargate Award and was subsequently staged by the Soho Theatre Company at the Cockpit Theatre in London in 1993. It also won the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince its premiere the play has been revived several times. Watford Palace Theatre staged it in 1996, in a production that transferred to the West End. Renowned theatre company Shared Experience also revived the play to great acclaim for a regional tour in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes several personal memoirs by German-born children whose lives were saved, and transformed, by the Kindertransport.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKindertransport\u003c\/em\u003e is a SET TEXT for GCSE English Literature (AQA) and AS\/A-Level English Literature (WJEC).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31641274581089,"sku":"9781854595270","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27260283.jpg?v=1721638055","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781854595270-kindertransport","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}